At high stakes one must forget them.
Sep 292022
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You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
Sep 262022
At every public lecture the audience, no matter how small, includes at least one member who doesn’t have a question, exactly, more like a comment.
Sep 192022
Few men improve upon closer acquaintance, and none indefinitely.
Aug 182022
There may never be a cure for every disease, but there will soon be a disease for every cure.
Jul 252022
Everything you hear about polite company seems calculated to drive you into the arms of the impolite.
Jul 182022
Science is like the best athlete in gym class — nobody really likes him, but everybody wants him on his team.
Jul 152022
People are divided less by what they believe than by how intensely they believe it.
Jul 132022
Everyone believes in natural ability, except the naturally able.
Jun 212022
So many china shops, so few bulls.
Jun 072022
Peer pressure, n. Peer review for children.